Torturous gets nod for Sinister Cinema series at Cineplex theatres

Torturous, an award-winning short from Halifax filmmaker Angus Swantee, has been selected to screen in 28 Cineplex locations in Canada on Thursday night as part of the Raven Banner series called

Sinister Cinema.

In Halifax, it will screen at 7:30 p.m. in Bayers Lake before Cabin Fever: Patient Zero.

“Sinister Cinema aims to provide a theatrical screening for genre feature films that would not otherwise receive a theatrical release,” says a news release.

Co-written by Scotsburn’s Craig Gunn and Swantee, and produced by Brent MacRae of Halifax, Torturous made its debut at the 2012 Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax and has since been an official selection at 50 festivals in Europe, South Africa, South America and throughout North America.

It has won multiple awards, including Best North American Short Film at the 2013 Nevermore Film Festival in North Carolina and Best Horror-Comedy Short Film at Buried Alive! Atlanta.

The six-minute comedy-horror film was created through the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative FILM5 program and is Swantee’s directorial debut.